Jonathan

This is an underrated tweet (or whatever we call them over here)

Frawley looking decent in the centre. Could be an option for Ireland? Handy when both Jack and Sam are in the bin. #LEIvQUI

I heard he got good conduct because he didn’t try to poke the members of the panel’s eyes out.

Well, he didn’t rip out an eyeball and start eating it so maybe mid-level is right?

I’m curious to know what you’d have to do for this to start at high level. Guess it’s mid because he didn’t rip out an eyeball and eat it?

A 6 match mitigation is ridiculous in the context. Don’t think you should ever really be able to argue good conduct when you’ve stuck your thumb in somebody’s eye and squeezed.

*give up

Translation: Nobody wanted to give us the chance of playing the World Cup so we’re just going to stick our heads in the sand for now and hope the problem solves itself when the World Cup is over.

Where did you go to uni? You never struck me as the intellectual type😉

Think he’s quite lucky only to get 3 weeks.

When will this be available following pre-orders?

You make a lot of sense but I’m not sure Ireland’s lineout could get much worse 🤦🏻

Clearly the Johnny he’s talking about is Johnny Sexton 😉

*we go

There were go….day long Bluesky discussion where we can’t agree and at the end of it, we’ve fixed rugby. 🤣

Bluesky Social? Completed it mate.

Maybe Carle is the problem 🤣

Anyway, enjoy the rest of your day and hopefully we’re better in the six nations.

And if you’re already being killed in a scrum it’ll be penalty on first engagement infringement. Easily. If a ref thinks it’s cynical, it’ll be a card.

My point still remains you can’t call a maul after a penalty in a maul. That’s the difference with scrums. If you keep calling scrums on scrum penalties and where a referee has already decided the infringing party, you will get cards.

Compared to other set piece, the scrum gives a great opportunity to manufacture cards.

In a set piece that is so difficult to officiate and requires such subjectivity, I personally think the scrum is open to abuse going forward.

You’re very welcome to disagree. 🙏

Again, I appreciate your point but I don’t agree.

1) your suggestions re the scrum likely result in a penalty; and

2) of course its reactionary, if nobody reacted to anything in the sport the laws would stagnate.

With anything else, there are opportunities for teams to get themselves out of a hole (winning a lineout, forcing a knock on) but if a team has a really dominant scrum, within the current laws, they can keep resetting until you’re playing against 14 men.

I appreciate your point, I just don’t agree with it.

You can’t just call a maul after a maul penalty. You have to get the lineout, successfully win it, set up the maul and then cause the pressure.

Ironically, I think the springboks would’ve beaten Ireland by a much bigger margin had they taken kicks, gone for the corner and just tried free plays.

Repeated maul infringements and 5m taps are illegally pulling the maul down or being offside because you’re under pressure.

I think it’s absolutely fair play to SA for exploiting the laws as they are.

I don’t have a problem with breakdown penalties. If you’ve taken the ball into an isolated area and you chose to hold on, that’s an action and think the penalty is fine.

I agree with this. I don’t mind it being a strong set piece whereby if you dominate you get a chance to have 3 points, a kick to the corner or a free play. But there are no other facets of the game that allow a team to manufacture cards by forcing repeated passive penalties.

Given the Leinster bias in the Ireland squad, I suspect that’s a fairly clear contributor

Would be interested to see Leinster’s stats over the same period. Feels like they’ve become much more comfortable taking penalties and cards under JN

For all other cards players have control. Upright tackle - technique. Offside - an act. In the scrum there isn’t much you can do if over powered. Teams aren’t risking cards for being bad at other set piece. I’d either scrap scrum cards or restrict a team from calling back to back scrum penalties.